This website was created as a way of bringing together all the current and future elements of the Open Knowledge Foundation‘s Working Group on Humanities. This site will gather news about all our humanities-related projects, and we encourage you ideas for new intiatives.

All material on this website and those of our projects is open, free to use, reuse, and redistribute, and subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.

Projects

Open Shakespeare

Open Shakespeare provides the complete works of Shakespeare, along with textual apparatus (introduction, notes) and tools (concordance, search, annotation, word frequency, etc.) all in an open form.

Open Milton

Open Milton is the sister site of Open Shakespeare, demonstrating the ease with which Open Shakespeare‘s code may be adapted to other uses.

Public Domain Review

The Public Domain Review aspires to become a bounteous gateway into the whopping plenitude that is the public domain, helping our readers to explore this rich terrain by surfacing unusual and obscure works, and offering fresh reflections and unfamiliar angles on material which is more well known.

Open Correspondence

Open Correspondence allows its users to explore the correspondence – and the social networks – of the nineteenth century literary world. At the moment the project currently contains some of the letters of Charles Dickens but we’re working to expand to it include many other authors such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Byron.

Weaving History

Temporarily hibernating (can you help?) This website allows you to create ‘factlets’ — places, people, events — and string them together into ‘threads’ at the click of a button. Automatically visualize the results temporally and spatially, search by any attribute, automatically import Wikipedia articles and much more.

Tools

Annotateit

With Annotateit, you can annotate any web page with embedded javascript or the bookmarklet.